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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lesser civil rights martyr, and probably too complicated an image for me to do in glass, but worth a shot. (And I'm grateful to the student who popped into office hours and started a long conversation that included educating me about St Gabriel.)

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Learning some basic stained glass skills too, but bright colors don't fit the John Brown style so well--good stoneware is more his look. So I'm thinking of trying to do a stained glass icon of St Gabriel of Georgia, tortured for burning a photo of Lenin.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Working on my next John Brown. Not sure if you've heard, but he is more alive now than he ever was.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My man looks like he does PR for Weyland-Yutani

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My man looks like a Precious Moments statue inscribed with the Fourteen Words

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave; His soul is marching on! www.facebook.com/share/v/1BdM...

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Yep. I'm running for office for the first time. I was shocked by how many people I talk to were completely ignorant about current events (from both parties, of course). But I learned that because I'm TALKING to them. They leave that conversation knowing more, including my name. That's the point.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

NCSL session “A Year of Tariffs: Where States Are Now“ with Troy Waymaster, Kansas State Rep., and Chi Mac, Business Research Director, JPMorgan Chase Economics /1

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Maybe he'd just boosted it and didn't care if it got re-stolen?

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And elect new leaders who EXPLICITLY commit to rebuilding federal science and humanities funding infrastructure, like @colinmcroberts.bsky.social !

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I acclaim that all the time

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As a first-time candidate running for Congress, what if the candidate is very handsome and noble and exquisitely humble?

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My primary opponent would be a good congresswoman. But she's not ready for prime time, and not well positioned to move the needle with independents in a red district--or willing to stand up for progressive values. (I'm the only anti-ICE candidate in the entire race!)

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We'd love your support in a straw poll for our primary in our primary for the Kansas First! If you weren't aware, I'm running as a Dem--and a professional negotiator and educator--against a MAGA diehard. www.facebook.com/share/p/17sQ...

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think I've seen the documentary.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Short, bitchy, grey, weirdly pallid, obsessed with the appearance of strength and law enforcement as a means to power? Can't believe you called this duergar a gnome.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I know it looks cute but dogs only do this when they're getting paid under the prevailing wage and need the job to go faster so they can get to the next gig

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Today is his birthday but every day he marches on. I may have done some tributes over the years.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

John Brown, no beard, arms crossed, looking intense as hell like usual

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 29/04/2026

The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I teach this in my business law classes. I walk through some of that demand letter's greatest hits (made of shit, sociopath, going to hell, etc. alleged to be defamatory) as examples of abusive and bogus threats.

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Colin McRoberts @colinmcroberts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

You think the Pope is weak on crime? You should see what Jesus did for a thief.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida. And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024). That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Most people who think this are delusional. I bet I could take him though.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I wonder what it would be like to have a government that functioned.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/03/2026

“He was deceived by Israel” is going to be the story so many people are going to reach for and I think creating this stabbed in the back myth is going to have some really bad consequences down the line.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Court: "What you've told me today, what your representation is, which I don't believe, by the way. I won't believe it until you testify. That is what has happened to the credibility of your office. Generations of Assistant U.S. Attorneys had built the goodwill of that office for your generation to destroy it within a year."

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Colin McRoberts @colinmcroberts.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm more comfortable with a lazy old nag than any animal you'd call "elite." But horses are important to my family. Godspeed these hairy Lamborghinis.

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Colin McRoberts @colinmcroberts.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Never a word for the junior senator, Roger Marshall, or my opponent, Tracey Mann. These little pro-business orgs won't say a word for them. Repeatedly. In very conservative places. They'll praise Moran, but they hit the brakes hard after that. A crisis of competence in government.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This makes me think about how important law school is right now. Without the benefit of experience, these new hires (a) won't know when to say 'no,' and (b) will learn the worst lessons about professionalism and ethics. I hope they've got good grounding. @coreyryung.bsky.social don't fuck it up.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

That problem and solution aside, these are two guys doing a bad job of introspective and mistaking that for not being introspective. But honestly, I worry more about the ones who are hugely introspective and also bad at it. The solipsists like Elon Musk. Being uncurious beats being a sociopath.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It's such an interesting and useful observation that great entrepreneurs aren't introspective. I mean, it's false, but it's false in an interesting and useful way. Some don't. Elizabeth Holmes not very insightful. But as a society we grant them years, decades even, to reflect in isolation.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A lot of lawyers would do a lot of terrible, terrible things to make sure this sentence and footnote never got written about their client. (This case is about whether a gaming company cheated the developers of Subnautica 2 out of hundreds of millions.) courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...

Excerpt from a court's order reading in part,

"On June 2, Park warned Kim over Slack that a “dismissal with cause” would not eliminate the earnout obligation, while exposing Krafton to “lawsuit and reputation risk.” And so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help."

The footnote to the last sentence says that "Kim admitted at trial that he had deleted specific, relevant ChatGPT logs."

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What a mark of shame for any decent American, for this bumbling wet drunk to see you as a life preserver in his dirty little war.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

But also how effective they can be when used creatively, like the collusive lawsuits and settlements with Florida and Texas. You could squeeze two good seminars out of this year alone, Substantive Law and Legal Procedures in the Second Trump Administration.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I was once hired to teach negotiation to a military team with a large training budget. At lunch they talked about how they'd had MMA stars come in to work with them too. They were pretty open about the fact that they learned very little useful skills, but had a lot of fun and got to meet stars.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There are certainly reasons to run even if you don't expect to win, but doing that instead of working has very limited upsides. And those are generally connected to how popular your campaign is. A Trump DOJ lawyer trying to primary Omar as a Dem isn't going to be popular.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's a baffling choice to me in both cases. A super long-shot campaign is not a good substitute for a job. It's unlikely to achieve the candidate's real goals and is a hugely stressful and difficult thing to do. And even if you aren't self-funding, it's a gargantuan thief of time and energy.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I'm running for Congress in a roughly similar situation (although I'm a Dem running in a red district, similarly massively uphill campaign). My primary opponent is herself in a somewhat analogous position; she lost her job to DOGE and picked a congressional campaign as her next project.

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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

We just wrapped up our big candidate forum at Washington Days in Topeka. Excited to see some of the strongest candidates to come forwards in Kansas in decades. Stay tuned for video! #bluewave #colinforkansas #midterm #kansas #politics

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Colin McRoberts @colinmcroberts.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I borrowed Mr. Technopants, my son Ox's Lego creation, to help explain how ICE is violating the rights of Americans--and why it's a problem for Americans even if only immigrants were being abused. youtu.be/5gJRwurl4NI

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How ICE is violating Americans' rights (an explainer featuring Mr. Technopants)

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

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Colin McRoberts @colinmcroberts.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Firms are gearing up for the Refund Wars now. We're likely to see billions transferred from government to corporate coffers. And good! The taxes were illegal. But *consumers* shouldered much of the tariff burden. And won't get those refunds. A massive wealth transfer from consumers to investors.

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